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| GAO rules against homeland security contract |
(Mon, 21 Mar 2011)
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The decision could be significant for agencies reevaluating their IT programs in the wake of Office of Management and Budget reviews launched last year.
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Author: Marjorie Censer |
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| Satellite firms pitch the government on off-the-shelf commercial products |
(Sun, 20 Mar 2011)
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The offers follow the release of an Obama administration policy urging agencies to avoid building satellites from scratch.
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Author: Steven Overly |
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| Demystifying Virginia's redistricting |
(Fri, 18 Mar 2011)
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Virginia lawmakers tasked with drawing new boundaries for all state legislative and congressional districts have a vested interest in preserving the status quo. But new open-source software is demystifing and democratizing the process, with poli-sci professors and students claiming that they've got
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Author: Mike DeBonis |
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| Verizon Wireless to start selling first 4G phone |
(Tue, 15 Mar 2011)
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NEW YORK -- Verizon Wireless says it will start selling its first phone capable of using its new, faster "4G" data network.
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Author: PETER SVENSSON |
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| Sorry, older folks, but by some business strategies, you're obsolete |
(Tue, 15 Mar 2011)
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The end of the D.C. telephone weather line is just another example of the contempt the young show for the old.
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Author: John Kelly |
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| Bypassing the big guys to get broadband |
(Mon, 21 Mar 2011)
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For Fauquier residents overlooked by telecom companies, a local man has come up with a way to bring broadband to his neighbors.
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Author: Michael S. Rosenwald |
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| 'Net zero' house to be built in Maryland should produce as much energy as it uses |
(Mon, 14 Mar 2011)
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It sounds like an idea out of a sci-fi novel: a house that can produce as much energy each year as it uses. But most buyers aren't interested in houses from a sci-fi novel, and they aren't much interested in paying extra for them, either.
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Author: Sandra Fleishman |
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| Lego contests put minority students on a mission |
(Sun, 13 Mar 2011)
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A small but growing number of predominantly African American student groups are coming to Lego robotics competitions.
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Author: Kevin Sieff |
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| Unemployment rate slipped in Md. and Va. in January, held steady in D.C. |
(Sun, 13 Mar 2011)
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The unemployment rate fell slightly in Maryland and Virginia in January but remained steady in the District, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. The data show strong job growth in D.C. and Virginia but losses in Maryland.
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Author: V. Dion Haynes |
Category: Unemployment |
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| U.S. funding tech firms that help Mideast dissidents evade government censors |
(Wed, 09 Mar 2011)
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The Obama administration may not be lending arms to dissidents in the Middle East, but it is offering aid in another critical way: helping them surf the Web anonymously as they seek to overthrow their governments.
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Author: Ian Shapira |
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| iPad 2's tweaks mean Apple laps tablet field: Rich Jaroslovsky |
(Wed, 09 Mar 2011)
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The iPad wasn't slow before. Now it's faster. It wasn't bulky before. Now it's thinner. It wasn't heavy before. Now it's lighter.
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Author: Rich Jaroslovsky |
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| Verizon pulling plug on time, weather services |
(Tue, 08 Mar 2011)
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Time has run out on time. The weather's not looking so hot, either.
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Author: John Kelly |
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| The cable-TV installation will be easy. Want to buy some property under the Brooklyn Bridge? |
(Mon, 07 Mar 2011)
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Author: John Kelly |
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| Government ending telework center funding |
(Thu, 03 Mar 2011)
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About a dozen telework sites across the Washington region are losing federal funding.
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Author: Ed O'Keefe |
Category: Government |
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| The Ripple Effect: Empty Halls, Lost Money, Discontent |
(Thu, 03 Mar 2011)
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From The Washington Post archives Published: November 15, 1995, Wednesday, Final Edition They read the official bad news in a blizzard of computer messages that hit around 9:30 a.m. yesterday. By noon they were gone: 150,000 government workers streaming out of office buildings and laboratories...
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Author: David Montgomery |
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| Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that oversees Internet |
(Tue, 01 Mar 2011)
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The California nonprofit organization that operates the Internet's levers has always been a target for such global heavies as Russia and China that prefer the United Nations to be in charge of the Web. But these days, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is fending off attacks ...
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Author: Ian Shapira |
Category: Obama |
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| Gmail disruption sends some users calling for backup |
(Mon, 28 Feb 2011)
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Tens of thousands of Gmail users were mysteriously locked out of their accounts Monday, or could not find any of their e-mails, as a result of a Google bug, a company representative said. The victims - about 38,000 people, or approximately .02 percent of all Gmail users - should have had their ac...
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Author: Ian Shapira |
Category: Gmail |
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| Serious crime on Metro hits 5-year high |
(Thu, 24 Feb 2011)
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Serious crime increased last year across the Metro transit system by 12 percent, fueled by surging numbers of aggravated assaults and robberies by thieves who snatch smartphones, MP3 players and other electronic devices from rail passengers and flee, Metro has reported.
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Author: Ann Scott Tyson |
Category: Serious |
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| D.C. Council still complaining over ticket distribution at Verizon Center |
(Tue, 22 Feb 2011)
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With Adrian M. Fenty no longer mayor, D.C. residents might have thought that council members' annual squabbling over tickets for the Verizon Center and Nationals Park would come to an end.
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Author: Tim Craig |
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| Report: Less than 6% of federal workers telework |
(Mon, 21 Feb 2011)
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New government figures show that few federal workers took advantage of telework options in the year before President Obama signed a bill requiring agencies to develop work-at-home plans.
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Author: Ed O'Keefe |
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| Eight ways to get higher education into shape |
(Sun, 20 Feb 2011)
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We take a look at eight big problems facing higher education and, aided by some of its greatest minds, offer up some big ideas to help solve them -- from standards and core curriculum to the end of merit aid and limits of college sports subsidies.
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Author: Daniel de Vise |
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| Wealthiest in Washington area get best high-speed Internet values, study says |
(Fri, 18 Feb 2011)
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Residents of the wealthiest parts of the Washington region tend to get the best value in high-speed Internet service, paying less for faster speeds, according to a new study from American University.
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Author: Cecilia Kang |
Category: Wealthiest |
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| Reading the 2012 budget like a map to government employment |
(Wed, 16 Feb 2011)
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It's ironic that the president released his 2012 budget on Valentine's Day. In this long love letter to the country, President Obama said to the federal government, "Baby, I love you, but we are going to have to make some changes."
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Author: Derrick T. Dortch Derrick T. Dortch |
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| New Greenbelt operations center will help manage traffic and transit throughout D.C. region |
(Wed, 16 Feb 2011)
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Like many things born to serve one primary purpose - the post-9/11 desire for an evacuation system - a state-of-the-art transportation center in Greenbelt also will provide something else. A Web site, Twitter and Facebook will deliver the data to people in real-time. Once the information is harnesse
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Author: Ashley Halsey III |
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| WikiLeaks, free speech and Twitter come together in Va. court case |
(Wed, 16 Feb 2011)
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An odd confluence of important issues came together in a federal courtroom in Alexandria on Tuesday: the criminal investigation of WikiLeaks, free speech and social networking.
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Author: Dana Hedgpeth |
Category: WikiLeaks, |
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| Can Facebook help overcome shyness? |
(Sat, 12 Feb 2011)
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Josh Chiles is shy. In a gathering of unfamiliar people, he often waits for someone, anyone, to ask him a question or make small talk.
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Author: Michael S. Rosenwald |
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| Rush is on for custom domain name suffixes |
(Mon, 07 Feb 2011)
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The pillar of the basic Web address - the trusty .com domain - is about to face vast new competition that will dramatically transform the Web as we know it. New Web sites, with more subject-specific, sometimes controversial suffixes, will soon populate the online galaxy, such as .eco, .love, .god...
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Author: Ian Shapira |
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| The hunt is on: Today's bounty hunters rely on technology more than muscle |
(Sun, 06 Feb 2011)
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Today, Facebook, MySpace and the Internet are key components to catching criminals in the changing world of bounty hunting.
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Author: Tom Dunkel |
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| FAA to equip some JetBlue planes with NextGen GPS technology |
(Thu, 03 Feb 2011)
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The federal government will pay $4.2 million to install new navigation systems on 35 JetBlue airplanes, hoping their enhanced performance will entice the airline industry to invest up to $20 billion in the new technology over the next decade.
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Author: Ashley Halsey III |
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| Verizon Restrains Video Downloads as IPhone Debuts |
(Thu, 03 Feb 2011)
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Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Verizon Wireless, facing a jump in data consumption as Apple Inc.'s iPhone goes on sale, said it will prevent users from downloading entire videos at once to help "ease capacity burdens on the network."
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Author: Greg Bensinger |
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| Facebook treads carefully after its vital role in Egypt's anti-Mubarak protests |
(Wed, 02 Feb 2011)
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In Egypt, the tried-and-true tool for opponents of President Hosni Mubarak in recent years has been Facebook. Most recently, it was on Facebook - which boasts 5 million users in Egypt, the most in the Arab world - where youthful outrage over the killing of a prominent activist spread, leading to ...
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Author: Cecilia Kang and Ian Shapira |
Category: Facebook |
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| Interior Department issues new policy protecting government scientists |
(Tue, 01 Feb 2011)
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The Interior Department set new rules Tuesday that will protect scientific information and the people who create it from political interference, earning wide praise from outside groups that have long alleged that top political officials regularly manipulate or misinterpret data.
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Author: Ed O'Keefe |
Category: Interior |
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| TSA debuts less-revealing software for airport scanners |
(Tue, 01 Feb 2011)
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New software designed to make airport security scanners less intrusive debuted at the Las Vegas airport Tuesday, a response to last year's uproar from passengers who thought the blurry but revealing images were an invasion of privacy.
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Author: Ashley Halsey III |
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| Gillian Clark: The chef people love to hate? |
(Tue, 01 Feb 2011)
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The General Store chef and her partner defend the videos they made parodying their customers.
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Author: Tim Carman |
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| At 10, dance-dancing his way to Guinness record |
(Mon, 31 Jan 2011)
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Let other parents stick honor-student bumper stickers on their cars. Ted Wada has a framed certificate from Guinness World Records on his mantel to celebrate his 10-year-old's excellence in . . . video gaming.
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Author: J. Freedom duLac |
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| How you and Google are losing the battle against spam in search results |
(Sat, 29 Jan 2011)
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Google is facing withering criticism from tech bloggers and search-engine experts who say the world's premier gateway to digital information is increasingly being gamed by spammers. Google, they say, is losing.
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Author: Michael S. Rosenwald |
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| 'Anonymous' movement views Web hijinks as public good, but legality is opaque |
(Wed, 26 Jan 2011)
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He goes by the code name AnonSnapple to keep secret the fact that he's part of the Internet collective of cyber-pranksters and activists called Anonymous.
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Author: Ian Shapira |
Category: 'Anonymous' |
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| Launch of .jobs Web sites shakes up employment advertising industry |
(Fri, 21 Jan 2011)
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A massive network of employment Web sites - where any company can list job openings for free - launched this week over the protests of newspapers and online recruitment companies, who fear billions of dollars in lost revenue.
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Author: Ian Shapira |
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| Borders struggles amid rapid changes in book sales |
(Thu, 20 Jan 2011)
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Meetings of the history book club at the Borders bookstore in White Flint Mall are device-free. The other night, during a discussion of "1848: Year of Revolution," no Kindles, iPads or Nooks showed up. There was one cellphone sighting, but it was fleeting.
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Author: Michael S. Rosenwald |
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| Blogger aims to chronicle every D.C. homicide victim |
(Tue, 18 Jan 2011)
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On the morning of Nov. 15, Laura Norton Amico found herself penned inside a scrum of journalists who had packed a room at D.C. Superior Court for a glimpse of the lead suspect in one of Washington's highest-profile murder cases: the 2001 killing of federal intern Chandra Levy.
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Author: Annys Shin |
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| Hacker breaches security at Pentagon Federal Credit Union |
(Mon, 17 Jan 2011)
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Members of a credit union that serves active-duty military personnel and others connected to the Pentagon are at risk for identity theft after a laptop was hacked, exposing the personal and financial records of an undisclosed number of troops and their families.
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Author: Lisa Rein |
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| After prison, building a new life means more than just doing right |
(Sun, 16 Jan 2011)
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Louis B. Sawyer Jr. spent almost half of his life in prison. After his release, returning to a normal life meant overcoming a series of obstacles.
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Author: Alex Halperin |
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| CES 2011: Smartphones, tablets and speedy networks run the show |
(Thu, 06 Jan 2011)
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LAS VEGAS - Tablets and smartphones took the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show on Thursday, with Motorola, Samsung and LG showering attendees with dozens of faster and more powerful devices that will reach consumer hands this year.
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Author: Cecilia Kang |
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| Insurer claims it was misled by Goldman Sachs on mortgage-backed investment |
(Thu, 06 Jan 2011)
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Abacus is the albatross that Goldman Sachs can't shed.
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Author: Zachary A. Goldfarb |
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| Are airport X-ray machines catching more than naked images? |
(Sun, 26 Dec 2010)
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The full-body scanners in use at 78 U.S. airports can detect small amounts of contraband and hidden weapons, all while producing controversial images of travelers.
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Author: Derek Kravitz |
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| Vitamin maker Royal DSM makes $1.1 billion offer for Md.-based Martek |
(Tue, 21 Dec 2010)
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Martek, a Columbia-based maker of nutrients for baby formula and other products, said Tuesday that it has accepted a nearly $1.1 billion buyout offer from the world's largest vitamin supplier.
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Author: Steven Overly |
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| Auditors question TSA's use of and spending on technology |
(Tue, 21 Dec 2010)
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Before there were full-body scanners, there were puffers.
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Author: Dana Hedgpeth |
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| D.C. Council bill would force online travel sites to start paying full hotel tax |
(Sat, 18 Dec 2010)
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The nationwide fight over whether online travel services pay their fair share in taxes has landed in the District, pitting Web sites such as Expedia.com and Orbitz.com against local hotels and a majority of D.C. Council members.
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Author: Tim Craig |
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| Federal leave policy for severe weather is revised |
(Wed, 15 Dec 2010)
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The Obama administration is mandating that the government allow more federal employees to telework during severe weather, and on Wednesday announced changes to its leave policy.
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Author: Ed O'Keefe |
Category: Federal |
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| Homeless man in D.C. uses Facebook, social media to advocate for others like him |
(Mon, 13 Dec 2010)
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Eric Sheptock has 4,548 Facebook friends, 839 Twitter followers, two blogs and an e-mail account with 1,600 unread messages.
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Author: Nathan Rott |
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| WikiLeaks' advocates are wreaking 'hacktivism' |
(Sun, 12 Dec 2010)
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In England, a 26-year-old advertising agency employee caters to multinational clients but on the side has been communicating with a secretive band of strangers devoted to supporting WikiLeaks.
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Author: Ian Shapira and Joby Warrick |
Category: WikiLeaks' |
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| D.C. Council member proposes reducing deficit with online gambling in city |
(Wed, 08 Dec 2010)
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Raising taxes and parking fines are the traditionally irksome ways that local governments generate desperately needed revenue.
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Author: Paul Schwartzman |
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| GSA to be first federal agency to move e-mail to cloud-based system |
(Thu, 02 Dec 2010)
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The General Services Administration has announced that it will be the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system, reflecting the government's push to adopt Web-based computing.
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Author: Marjorie Censer |
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| Scientists say they have solution to TSA scanner objections |
(Mon, 22 Nov 2010)
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A cheap and simple fix in the computer software of new airport scanners could silence the uproar from travelers who object to the so-called virtual strip search, according to a scientist who helped develop the program at one of the federal government's most prestigious institutes.
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Author: Ashley Halsey III |
Category: Scientists |
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| Verizon seeking permission to stop delivering white pages in Maryland, Virginia |
(Wed, 17 Nov 2010)
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Score another one for the digital revolution. The phone book - or at least the residential white pages - is going the way of the rotary telephone and the phone booth. Not to mention vinyl records, typewriters and tape recorders. Verizon, the largest provider of landline phones in the Washington r...
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Author: Anita Kumar |
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